Life Quotes

"Life is the only thing worth living for, yet we spend so much time avoiding it."

"To live fully is to embrace both joy and sorrow."

"We are always the same age inside."

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life."

"Everybody has to eat or do something."

"Youth is a wonderful thing; what a crime to waste it on children."

"The greatest tragedy is living without discovering one's true purpose."

"Every person has a story worth hearing."

"Life is too short and uncertain to deny ourselves anything we really want."

"We are most alive when we acknowledge our deepest longings."

"Life's meaning emerges from our willingness to live deliberately."

"Passion is the evidence of being truly alive."

"Life's meaning is found not in what we accomplish but in how we live."

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them, but shall use my time."

"I have enjoyed myself thoroughly—that is, I have lived."

"Life should be lived, not merely endured."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy; it is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."

"We are shaped by our choices, not by our circumstances."

"Distracted from distraction by distraction."

"We are dying, each of us, all the time. Shall we not, rather, die with enthusiasm?"

"Birth, and copulation, and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks."

"Every moment is tragic and every moment is comic."

"To be alive is to feel the constant tug of contradictions."

"All values ultimately come down to life and the relative vivacity of life."

"Human beings are born with different capacities."

"Only the human heart can balance the sentimental with the practical."

"Only emotion endures."

"The world is a stage and men and women merely players."

"One cannot live only on memories."

"To go on in this way is the real way to live."